Our Origin

That future is now.

"The agentic economy was coming. With it, an entirely new class of security risk that no existing tool was built to handle."

In late 2023, Dr. Samer Fayssal, Matt Hardy, and Cody Nicewanner saw what others could not. AI would fundamentally rewire the threat landscape before most organizations were ready to respond.

They built Prax Labs not to react to the future but to be ahead of it, designing defenses for AI-born attacks and rogue agents before either existed at scale. Today, that future is here, and Prax Labs is ready.

2024

Founded

Prax Labs is founded on a single thesis: the window to build ahead of the AI threat shift is closing fast.

2025

Defense Architecture Built

The core detection engine for AI-born attacks ships, with pre-signature transaction monitoring in the hands of early crypto-operator partners.

2026

The Inflection Arrives

AI-driven attacks surge and autonomous agents spread across enterprise stacks. The platform reaches general availability for the agentic economy.

Who We Protect

Built for institutions managing digital assets.

From centralized exchanges to autonomous DeFi protocols, the agentic threat surface spans every corner of the digital-asset ecosystem.

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Exchanges & Custodians

Protect hot-wallet infrastructure and withdrawal flows from AI-orchestrated draining attacks and rogue-agent manipulation.

02

DeFi Protocol Operators

Detect and disrupt AI-assisted flash-loan attacks, governance manipulation, and exploit chains before execution.

03

Enterprise Crypto Treasury

Secure autonomous treasury-management agents across multi-chain environments with behavioral guardrails and anomaly detection.

04

Web3 Infrastructure Providers

Monitor RPC nodes, bridges, and validators for AI-injected malicious payloads and coordinated disruption campaigns.

The Team

Deep domain expertise across security, digital assets, and AI.

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Dr. Samer Fayssal

CEO & Co-Founder
BitGo · Rakuten · PhD AI/ML

20 years of cybersecurity leadership and former CISO at BitGo. Deep expertise in AI/ML applied to financial crime, and author of the Prax Labs core detection IP and OraBrain™ architecture.

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Matt Hardy

COO & Co-Founder
BitGo · Google · Booz Allen

More than 20 years across enterprise and digital-asset spaces. Former VP Solutions Engineering at BitGo and VP Sales Engineering at Qredo, bringing deep institutional relationships and go-to-market execution.

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Cody Nicewanner

CTO & Co-Founder
Microsoft · UiPath · Anduril · Dfns

More than 18 years in cybersecurity engineering, having led security architecture at Microsoft, UiPath, Anduril, and Dfns. Architect of Web3Firewall's core detection infrastructure and real-time policy engine.

Backed By
Susquehanna Global quantitative trading firm
Laser Digital Nomura's digital-asset arm
gumi Cryptos Digital-asset specialist fund
Strategic Partners
Google Cloud Partner
AWS Partner Network
Crypto ISAC Member
Enterprise Readiness
ISO CertifiedPatents FiledProduction API LiveSandbox Platform Live
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AI agents will transact financially. Static security will fail. Prax Labs is ready.